HIV positive people have a greater risk of stomach cancer. Read on to know how a 51-year-old HIV positive woman triumphed over her disease. People who are HIV positive are at an increased risk of some cancers.
According to a study conducted in and published in , an , researchers were of the opinion that this increased risk may be due to the fact that HIV causes premature aging in patients. Of course, they also acknowledged that the risk increases because of other risk factors like smoking as well as exposure to oncogenic viruses. One cancer that HIV positive people have a higher risk of is stomach or gastric cancer.
Another study from the says that in AIDS patients, this risk goes up by almost seven times as compared to people without HIV. In light of the above facts, it is a matter of triumph when an HIV positive patient successfully fights and overcomes a stomach cancer diagnosis. Let us take a look at the journey of a 51 year old stomach cancer patient from Cameroon who was also HIV positive.
Mrs Carine Ziba was recently successfully treated by The patient's journey began with persistent abdominal pain and frequent bouts of vomiting. After a series of evaluations, which included whole body PET CT scan to and biopsies, the doctors arrived at the verdict. It was Carcinoma Stomach with Gastric Outlet Obstruction and Gastric mass.
The doctors attending to her were unanimous in their decision that she would have to go in for a Multi-Organ Resection surgery. In the operating the.
